Chapter 9: A ...... in the Distant Starry Sky
The distant starry sky is in flames, and the wheel of fate is rolling forward.
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In the vast sea of stars, this is a galaxy.
Unlike the early galaxies, where consciousness was busy remodeling, it is home to planetary systems that are clearly well evolved.
One of the most striking is naturally a beautiful blue planet.
Planets rotate slowly in space, and most of their surfaces are covered in blue oceans. Several continents of different shapes are intertwined with green and earthy yellow, and white clouds and cyclones drift in the transparent atmosphere above, like silk floc.
But this is no ordinary living planet, on the periphery of the planet, several huge rings surround the planet. It's not a natural aura, it's a building built by intelligent beings, a circular space city huge enough to circle the planet.
This was supposed to be a place of calm, but contrary to the apparent calm, the galaxy is in unprecedented turmoil.
In the outer reaches of the star system, near a huge dark blue planet, a little fire is constantly flashing. Countless starships poured fire frantically......
Laser beams, electromagnetic cannons, particle cannons, space missiles...... Or even an antimatter bomb!
They have few enemies, but they are always steadfast in their advance, forcing the entire front to retreat.
Five interstellar fortresses with a diameter of 10,000 meters!
No one knows where these terrible weapons of war come from, they seem to be floating aimlessly in the starry sky, and when the intelligent beings of this star system discover these starry sky wanderers and prepare to communicate, they lock on to the star coordinates and kill them all the way without mercy!
Without the swarm tactics that mechanical civilizations excel at, the enemy's machines are only these five star-fortresses, which ignore all crazy ordinary weapon attacks, and antimatter bombs, although they can cause damage to the shell of the star-fortress, do not do much damage, especially if the enemy can use technology similar to nanotechnology to heal themselves quickly.
They show no sign of being commanded by intelligent beings, and no one knows who made them. Their every move is as if they were completely automatonous, there are no tactics, no communication, only attack, attack, attack!
The surfaces of the starbatons of various shapes are covered with strange mechanical devices, and they are shooting wantonly at the fleet ahead. The tactics employed by these invaders are even more terrifying when confronted with too dense formations...... Just hit it!
They are pure destroyers of civilization, only to completely destroy the civilization they have discovered. They weren't afraid of how much damage they would take, they didn't even have any jumping devices, they just moved slowly but without stopping in the starry sky......
The intelligent creatures of this star system were completely unable to stop the enemy's attack, and the countdown to death resounded over the planet of life.
At this moment, in a space area above the blue planet, dense intertwined pipes are gradually lighting up section by section......
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"Remember, don't stop until you reach your desired goal!" The commander of the base commanded to the young man in front of him with a solemn face, "The invaders are gradually approaching the home planet, and we simply don't have enough time to rebuild the spacecraft in a few days, so we can only hastily launch this batch of six experimental long-range jump spacecraft, and we don't even have time to add a second passenger to the spacecraft." The continuous transition technology of these spacecraft can only be turned on at ultra-high speeds, and once stopped, even if the antimatter energy is enough to accelerate again, it will take more than ten years for the spacecraft to accelerate again to a sufficient jump state by relying on the ship's own power. ”
"Yes, sir." As one of the selected civilized fugitive pilots, Xiao Cheng's tone was filled with a hint of sadness, "Is there really no other way?" ”
The commander glanced deeply at the young man in front of him: "Yes, you should know, there is no other way. Although the enemy does not prevent us from escaping from our home galaxy at all, we do not have a well-established internal circulation ship, so a ship without a jump device and a dormant system is absolutely lifeless. ”
"Yes......"
"The launch of the Nova has been completed, the first stereoscopic printers and biological petri dishes have been put in place, and preparations are now underway to house some more plants and small animals." The commander pulled out the information screen in front of him, "When these are done, we will set off......
[Urgent battle report! Urgent war report! The inner ring defense line has been breached! The enemy used an unprecedented acceleration technique! Arrive at the home planet in ten minutes! All fugitive ships are launched at once! Repeat, launch now! 】
"What?" As the alarm sounded in the loudspeaker, everyone was shocked, and the commander's face changed, and he shouted at Xiao Cheng, "Get ready to board the ship immediately!" ”
"What...... What the? Xiao Cheng was a little overwhelmed, "But the creature ......"
"There's no time for other animals! Otherwise, none of them will be able to escape when the time comes! Ignoring the sparkling line interface, the commander forcibly unplugged a huge hard drive from the main engine of the launch base, and handed it to the youth, "Take it!" With all the data in our main base archived, there's no time for you to pick a target planet! Go to space and decide your destination! ”
“…… Yes? ”
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In fact, when Xiao Cheng sat inside the nova and began to accelerate, it was as if he was in a dream, watching the capsule-shaped nova slowly slide into the nerve acceleration net......
It's not for nothing that the engineers who built the devices named it Neural Acceleration Network, sitting inside the spacecraft and looking out through the window, the dense translucent pipes are intertwined and intricately intertwined. Silver flashes of light flowed like pulses of electricity along the pipe, and at a cursory glance, it looked as if the pipe was covered with a moving film of silver liquid, shimmering with dreamlike beauty.
The buzzing sound in his ears kept ringing, and his body could clearly feel the vibration of the spaceship. Following the pulses of energy, the spacecraft continues to accelerate in these huge intertwined pipes, as if it were in a huge network of nerve cells, and even one of the acceleration compartments was jokingly called synapses by the engineers.
The Nova continued to accelerate and glide under the impetus of external forces, and Xiao Cheng could soon clearly feel that his body was being tortured by the huge acceleration, and these accelerations were already the remnants of being weakened to the greatest extent, otherwise they could completely squeeze the human body into a puddle of flesh in an instant.
One acceleration synapse after another flew in front of the eyes, gradually turning into invisible light and shadow, and the speed of the nova became faster and faster, and it was getting closer and closer to the limit of the acceleration pipeline......
Xiao Cheng began to feel dizzy, he knew that these acceleration pipes that were supposed to be used for unmanned equipment should not be used to accelerate manned spacecraft, but they were the only devices on the home planet that could quickly accelerate six single-person jump spacecraft to the speed of the jump point.
The vision gradually blurred, the huge pressure made the brain gradually lose consciousness, and at the last moment before the coma, Xiao Cheng felt a sudden lightness all over his body, and a strange colored light band seemed to appear outside the window......
Is it the light left by the low-velocity particles in the starry sky when the spacecraft accelerates to a very high level, due to the relative speed of the spacecraft, or is it the hallucinations in the nerve cells of the brain due to the increase in blood pressure?
It's starting to jump...... Xiao Cheng said softly, and then fell into boundless darkness......
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When Xiao Cheng woke up again, it was already a vast sea of stars......
The young man slowly opened his eyes and patted his head, trying to wake himself up quickly. He tried to stand up, but found himself very vain, and glanced at the time on the console, which seemed to be unconscious for a day or so.
Looking up, outside the window was a boundless sea of stars with a little bit of light, but none of this was the key issue that Xiao Cheng was concerned about, the real key issue was ...... What happened to the home galaxy now?
He raised his somewhat weak hand and searched the database on the console, unsurprisingly, found a video data that he had later received from his home planet. The video is sent via pre-programmed quantum communication and is sent in about ...... Six minutes after the departure of the Nova.
Clenching his fingers slightly, as if he had a premonition of something, Xiao Cheng slowly clicked on the small icon......
In the video is the familiar Neural Acceleration Network launch base, the control hall is crowded but silent, and on the main screen directly in front of it is a set of beating blood-red countdown numbers.
The commander, who looked very old, slowly turned around and said word by word to the camera: "When you see this video, it should be a day later." At this moment, the enemy is still twenty seconds away from our planet, I don't know what will happen in the end, but at least I hope you can know......"
Wow!
The crowd behind suddenly erupted into an uproar, mixed with all kinds of unbelievable discussions, and the originally silent hall suddenly became very noisy......
A scientific researcher in a white coat hurriedly ran over: "Commander! Those starforts, they ...... They just ignored us and crossed the orbit of our planet! ”
"What?" The commander's face also showed deep surprise, "What......"
"Oh my God!" The people behind let out an exclamation in unison again, "They're heading towards the star, this super high speed, no, how many things did they launch just now?" ”
The commander, apparently ignoring the need to speak to the camera, hurried to the front command podium and switched the main screen to the reconnaissance system in the distance.
What appeared on the screen was a young, churning heatwave main-sequence star, and several points of light emitting huge brilliance had just been launched from those star-fortresses, rushing towards the stars at extremely high speeds......
Then, in the horrified eyes of the people, those points of light burrowed into the flames of the stars without hesitation!
It seemed that an invisible loud noise could be heard in the universe, and several obvious huge depressions appeared on the surface of the star in an instant. The huge depressions on the surface of these plasmas are like vortices of flames, spinning and expanding, and the whole star seems to be squeezed inward by some invisible force......
"Is this, is it ......," exclaimed a gray-haired old scientist, "Gravity Well Bomb!" How is this kind of thing possible...... And acting on the stars, they can't help but want to ......."
He doesn't need to say the rest of the story......